L’Encyclopédie
de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

Les
Acadiens/Acadians

"
We did, in my opinion most inhumanly, and upon pretences that
in the eye of an honest man are not worth a farthing, root out
this poor, innocent, deserving people, whom our utter inability
to govern or to reconcile gave us no sort of right to extirpate
".
Edmund Burke